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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-garut-ai-fake-nude-photo-extortion-young-man-rp200-thousand","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Seorang pemuda Asal Karangpawitan di Kabupaten Garut diperas oleh akun tak dikenal yang mengancam akan menyebarkan foto bugil palsu hasil rekayasa AI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A young man from Karangpawitan in Garut Regency was extorted by an unknown account that threatened to spread a fake nude photo produced with AI.","causal_attribution":"One local outlet; the account holder is unidentified."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Pelaku meminta korban mentransfer sejumlah uang sebagai biaya penghapusan foto tersebut'; 'korban sempat mentransfer uang sebesar Rp200 ribu'; 'akun tak dikenal tersebut kembali meminta transfer uang kedua dengan alasan biaya penghapusan permanen'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The young man transferred Rp200,000 after the account demanded money to delete the photo, and the account then asked for a second transfer for permanent deletion.","causal_attribution":"One local outlet."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'dipastikan foto tersebut adalah hasil editan AI'; 'Itu foto tempelan AI, bukan foto asli'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The outlet says the photo was confirmed after a check to be an AI edit, and its journalist told the family it was an AI paste-up and not a real photo.","causal_attribution":"The outlet and its journalist; the method of checking is not described."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'keluarga akhirnya memblokir akun pelaku dan tidak lagi menanggapi ancaman'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The family blocked the account and stopped responding to the threats.","causal_attribution":"One local outlet."}],"effects":[{"label":"threatened with the spread of an AI-made fake nude photo and paid Rp200,000","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://kilasgarutnews.id/waspada-foto-bugil-buatan-ai-pemuda-di-garut-jadi-korban-pemerasan-akun-tak-dikenal-minta-transfer-uang-untuk-hapus-foto/amp/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"AMP page read in the original Indonesian on 2026-10-05 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. The outlet reports its own journalist's help to the family; no outside source is quoted.","independence_group":"kilas-garut-news"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the threats and the transfer happened.","How the photo was checked and which tool made it.","Which platform the account used and who operated it.","Whether the photo was spread and whether a police report was made.","The young man's age."],"geography":{"basis":"The report describes a young man from Karangpawitan in Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia. Where the account holder is located is not reported. 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The method of checking and the tool are not reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Garut, West Java: a local outlet reports that a young man paid Rp200,000 to an unknown account that threatened to spread an AI-made fake nude photo","summary":"Kilas Garut News reported on 3 October 2026 that a young man from Karangpawitan in Garut Regency, West Java, was extorted by an unknown account that threatened to spread a fake nude photo made with AI. According to the report, the account demanded money to delete the photo and the young man, frightened, transferred Rp200,000; the account then asked for a second payment for permanent deletion. The young man told family members, who consulted a journalist of the outlet. The journalist is quoted as saying the photo was an AI paste-up and as advising the family to stop paying and block the account, which they did. No police report is mentioned. The account comes from the outlet and its own journalist, who helped the family.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-03","aiSystem":"An AI tool used to make a fake nude photo of the victim, which Kilas Garut News calls an AI edit and its journalist an AI paste-up (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A young man in Garut paid Rp200,000 to an unknown account that threatened to spread an AI-made fake nude photo, according to Kilas Garut News.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the young man who was threatened and transferred Rp200,000 (Kilas Garut News). Family members are not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://kilasgarutnews.id/waspada-foto-bugil-buatan-ai-pemuda-di-garut-jadi-korban-pemerasan-akun-tak-dikenal-minta-transfer-uang-untuk-hapus-foto/amp/","primarySourceLabel":"Kilas Garut News, 3 October 2026: young man in Garut extorted by an unknown account over an AI-made fake nude photo","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:16:31.449717+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:16:31.449717+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sextortion","non-consensual-imagery","extortion","garut","west-java","indonesia","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-uk-trades-college-staff-member-reported-manipulated-undressing-video","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'works for a UK college that trains students aged 16 to 19 in trades like construction.'; 'This winter, she says, school administrators told her that a student filed a report claiming two videos were circulating among his classmates.'; 'One appeared to be real, and it showed her having a conversation with a student.'; 'The other one, they said, appeared to be a manipulated version of the first. But instead of talking to the student, it showed her taking her clothes off and dancing around in what was either underwear or a bikini.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A staff member at a UK college that trains 16-to-19-year-olds in trades says administrators told her this winter that a student had reported two videos circulating among classmates: one apparently real video of her talking with a student, and a second that appeared to be a manipulated version showing her taking her clothes off and dancing in underwear or a bikini.","causal_attribution":"Her account of what administrators told her; the AI attribution is not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She says she had several of those conversations with the student she suspected had created the video. The student denied it when questioned by administrators and soon dropped out of the school.'; '(The college did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student she suspected of creating the video denied it when questioned by administrators and soon dropped out; the college did not respond to WIRED.","causal_attribution":"Who made the video is unresolved: she suspected a student, who denied it."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Afterward, the college gave her permission to step away from the class for a few weeks and took steps to educate students about the danger of creating or distributing deepfakes. 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Her account is given in her own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; WIRED identifies her by first name only; the college did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which college, and where in the UK.","The date, beyond this winter in an August 2026 report.","Who made the manipulated video and with what tool.","How widely the video circulated and whether it was removed.","The college's position; it did not respond to WIRED."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED says she works for a UK college and that administrators told her a student had reported the videos circulating among his classmates. No nation within the UK, town or college is named. 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She says administrators told her this winter that a student had reported two videos circulating among classmates: one apparently real, showing her talking with a student, and one that appeared to be a manipulated version showing her taking her clothes off and dancing in underwear or a bikini. The student she suspected denied making it when questioned and soon dropped out. The college let her step away from the class for a few weeks and educated students about deepfakes; she says the atmosphere had chilled when she returned and that the episode has made her more cautious. 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The student shown in the original conversation video is not described as harmed and is not counted. Exact count 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:41.734192+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:41.734192+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","college","education-staff","harassment","united-kingdom","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]},{"id":"2026-middle-school-teacher-ai-looking-tiktok-impersonation-sexual-videos-student-harassment","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'One middle school teacher in her mid-twenties tells WIRED'; '(She requested anonymity because she did not have permission from her school district to speak about her experience.)'; 'A few months ago, the teacher says, she learned from a student about a TikTok account impersonating her. It looked AI-generated—her face had the characteristic smoothness of AI-generated content, her mouth was moving unnaturally while speaking, and the sound of her voice didn’t match her own.'; 'Some of the videos showed her doing things like skydiving or backflips. But others depicted her talking about sexual acts she performed and enjoyed.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"An anonymous middle-school teacher in her mid-twenties says that a few months before WIRED's report she learned from a student of a TikTok account impersonating her whose videos looked AI-generated (a smooth face, unnatural mouth movement and a voice unlike hers); some showed her skydiving or doing backflips and others depicted her talking about sexual acts.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account; the AI attribution is her inference from the videos' appearance and voice."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She says she told her principal about the account and that they assured her that they would “see what we can do.”'; 'Throughout the day, students continued to warn her about the account.'; 'She says that some told her that they knew who made the account—one of their classmates.'; 'I know a lot of the kids that reported it to me genuinely believed that was my account, and that I was saying those things'; 'She asked them to report it to TikTok, and she says the account was quickly taken down.'; 'Still unnerved by the incident, she mentioned the TikTok account during the next monthly teacher meeting.'; 'worried about this happening again'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She told her principal; some of the students who warned her said a classmate had made the account, and she says many of the students who reported it to her believed it was her own account; after she asked students to report it to TikTok, she says the account was quickly taken down; she was still unnerved when she raised it at the next monthly teacher meeting and says she is worried about it happening again.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account; the maker's identity rests on what students told her."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'she became the target of escalating, in-person harassment from this same student'; 'She says the principal removed the student from her class and tried to limit his access to her. But she says that the harassment continued until the student ultimately left the district, and TikTok removed the account.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She says she then became the target of escalating in-person harassment from the same student; the principal removed the student from her class and tried to limit the student's access to her, but the harassment continued until the student left the district.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account. The in-person harassment was not AI-generated; it is recorded as a reported consequence involving the same student."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A colleague said he had seen a seemingly AI-generated fake video of himself getting arrested, which he believed was generated by the same student.'; 'the assistant principal said that the same student was calling and texting them in the middle of the night and posting apparent AI-generated photos of them to TikTok.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At staff meetings a colleague said he had seen a seemingly AI-generated fake video of himself being arrested that he believed the same student made, and the assistant principal said the same student had been calling and texting at night and posting apparent AI-generated photos to TikTok.","causal_attribution":"Secondhand statements relayed by the teacher; WIRED does not make clear whom the assistant principal's 'them' refers to."}],"effects":[{"label":"a TikTok account that looked AI-generated impersonated her, including videos of her talking about sexual acts, and students believed it was her","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she was harassed in person by the student said to have made the account until the student left the district","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). The teacher spoke anonymously; her account is given in her own words and in WIRED's paraphrase. WIRED gives no location and no school statement.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Where the school is; WIRED gives no place or country.","When exactly the account appeared, beyond a few months before the August 2026 report.","Which tool, if any, generated the videos.","Whether the school or district disciplined the student for the account itself.","Whether the colleague and the assistant principal were harmed."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED does not say where the teacher works or lives; it reports only that she lacked permission from her school district to speak. No country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the charter's personal-account rule as a concrete account by an adult teacher who spoke to a journalist anonymously about her own case (depicted_or_impersonated): a TikTok account that looked AI-generated impersonated her with sexual content that students believed, and in-person harassment by the student said to be behind it followed. One reporting chain (WIRED); AI involvement is suspected; no location is recorded. The teacher and students are not identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The teacher says the impersonation videos looked AI-generated because of the face's smoothness, unnatural mouth movement and a voice that did not match hers; WIRED introduces the teachers as alleging their students made the content, likely using AI. Students said a classmate made the account. 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She says many of the students who warned her believed it was her account. She told her principal and says she was still unnerved by it; some students told her a classmate had made it, and after she asked students to report it the account was quickly taken down. She says the same student then harassed her in person with escalating insults; the principal removed the student from her class, and the harassment continued until the student left the district. WIRED gives no location for her school.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified tool suspected of generating the impersonation videos: the teacher says they looked AI-generated (smooth face, unnatural mouth movement, a voice that did not match hers); the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool (suspected)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A TikTok account that looked AI-generated impersonated her, including videos of her talking about sexual acts that students believed were real, she was unnerved, and the student said to be behind it then harassed her in person until leaving the district (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes the harm to herself. A colleague's account of a seemingly AI-generated arrest video and the assistant principal's account of night-time calls and apparent AI photos are reported secondhand without stated harm, so they are not counted; the count is a lower bound of 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. 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The image depicted him and another male teacher kissing each other.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher says his students circulated an AI-generated photo of him in the comments of his public TikTok account, showing him and another male teacher kissing each other.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account to WIRED; the tool is not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'reported the accounts to TikTok—not for content violations but for being under the minimum age of 13—but says TikTok didn’t remove the accounts.'; 'He says that the school immediately launched an investigation and quickly identified the student, who admitted to creating and sharing the image.'; 'The student received a three-day suspension—the most severe punishment kids their age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense, according to the school district handbook.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He reported the accounts to TikTok for being under the minimum age of 13 and says TikTok did not remove them; he says the school immediately investigated and identified a student who admitted creating and sharing the image, and the student received a three-day suspension, which WIRED says the district handbook sets as the most severe punishment at that age for a first-time sexual harassment offense.","causal_attribution":"The school's actions are known through the teacher; the district did not respond to WIRED."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'tells WIRED that reflecting on the experience “has kind of sent me into a spiral.” His concerns, he says, are not necessarily about what happened to him.'; 'They’re more focused on the enthusiastic, permissive culture surrounding AI use among his students.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He told WIRED that reflecting on the experience had sent him into a spiral, and that his concerns were less about what happened to him than about the permissive culture around AI use among his students.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's own description of the effect on him."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'according to the school district handbook. The district did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The district did not respond to WIRED's request for comment.","causal_attribution":"Reporting-chain note: the account rests on the teacher's interview with WIRED."}],"effects":[{"label":"students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"he says reflecting on the experience sent him into a spiral","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). The teacher's account is given in his own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; the district did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["When the image was posted.","Which AI tool produced the image.","Which school and district were involved.","Whether the other teacher shown in the image was affected or consulted.","Whether TikTok later removed the accounts or the image."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED describes him as an Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher whose own students circulated the image; he says his school investigated and identified the student, who received a three-day suspension. 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The tool is not named and no technical assessment of the image is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Arizona: a sixth-grade teacher says his students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account; the school identified a student who admitted making it, who was suspended for three days","summary":"WIRED (Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026) reports the account of an Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher, who spoke to WIRED by name (not repeated here). He says his students circulated an AI-generated photo showing him and another male teacher kissing in the comments of his public TikTok account. He reported the accounts to TikTok as belonging to children under 13, and says TikTok did not remove them. He says the school immediately investigated and identified a student, who admitted creating and sharing the image and received a three-day suspension; WIRED says the district handbook makes that the most severe punishment children of that age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense. He told WIRED that reflecting on the experience had sent him into a spiral, and said his concern was mainly the permissive culture around AI among his students. The district did not respond to WIRED. WIRED gives no date for the episode and does not name the school, district or AI tool.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image tool; the teacher describes the image of him kissing another male teacher as AI-generated, and WIRED says the teachers it interviewed allege their students made the content, likely using AI; the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account, and he says reflecting on the experience sent him into a spiral (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes the harm to himself. WIRED reports no account from the other male teacher shown kissing him in the image and no harm to him, so he is not counted; the count is a lower bound of 1. WIRED's other teacher accounts are separate cases.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:33.997566+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:33.997566+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","teacher","school","tiktok","harassment","arizona","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]}]}